Entries Tagged as 'Programming'

August 29, 2007

More Flow, More Happiness

I usually spend only 20% of my workday programming, but this week I’ve been doing more of it and it’s been awesome. There’s something really rewarding about refactoring code — making it more concise, more logical, more consistent. More beautiful. This isn’t even new code; I’m just pruning the old stuff in preparation for coming [...]

August 10, 2007

Notes on Facebook

Thursday evening I presented briefly at the Utah Facebook Developers Garage. Here are the links and articles I shared:
How big is it?
Paul Allen: Internet Entrepreneur ยป Prediction: Facebook will be the largest social network in the world
blog.pmarca.com: Analyzing the Facebook Platform, three weeks in
iLike Loves an Open Facebook - MarketingVOX
Current growth
Facebookizing the Web, Webifying Facebook [...]

June 7, 2007

Amtrak series: Ruby on Rails on Rails

This will be the most technical of my posts in the Amtrak series, but it’s not just for computer geeks so stay with me. Here we go.
Ruby on Rails is a “web application framework”, a way for programmers to make web applications more easily and more quickly (and more enjoyably, as its creators would be [...]